Lens-seating device



July 30, 1929. A. E. GLANCY LENS SEATINGDEVIGE Filed NOV. 11, 1925 3mm 0mm fisfelle Glancg.

Patented July 30, 1929,

UNITED STATES PATENTI' OFFICE.

I ANNA. ESTELLE GLANCY, F SOUTHBBIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNCB TO Am CAN OPTICAL COMPANY, OF SOUTHBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, A VOLUNTARY AB A 'SQCIATI ON OF MASSACHUSETTS.

LENS-SEATING DEVICE.

Application filed November 11, 1925. Serial No; 68,858.

This invention relates to improved means employed for mounting lenses in separated lens systems, and consists primarily of a new and novel method for adjusting the angle of '5 the lenses in such separated lens systems as are-commonly employed in. various types of both lens and eye testing instruments.

In the mounting of separated lens systems the perfect adjustment of the two or more components or lenses constituting the system with respect to one another may be very essential, as a small degree of tilting of one component with respect to the other can be detected by the effect on the optical image; that is to say, should either of the components become tilted with respect to the other, even P to a minute degree, it will produce aberrations on the optical image. Heretofore the perfect adjustment of these components has always been both a tedious and difiicult task. The resent invention has been designed, there ore to overcome the difficulties encountered in the mounting of such systems.

The present invention has for its principal object the provision of an improved method for adjusting the lenses for small amounts of tilting when mounting the same in a separated lens system.

Another object of the invention is to provide such a method wherein the lens will be in perfect control of adjustment no matter how minute may be the adjustment required. Still another object is to provide such a method and means for accom lishing the same, which will be applicable to 0th concave andconvex lenses in order that either type 4 may be employed in the system and may e equally we adjusted. A still further object is to provide such means which is extremely simple in construction, yet thorough and efiicient in practice,

and an advance in the art.

Other advantages, together with various novel features of construction of the present invention, will be more readily apparent by reference to the following specification taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein similar characters denote cor.- responding parts throughout the several views.

' 1n the drawings:

Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view showinga I separated lens system composed of two comexample, there is shown onl ponents and illustrating the problem the present invention is designed to overcome;

F lgure 2 is a top plan view of means con-v structed in accordance with the present inven tion for adjusting the angle of the lens;

Figure 3 is a'view on line 3-3 of Figure 2;

Figure 4 is a diagrammatic view showing the principle of operation of the present invention.

Figure 5 is a view showing the manner of adjusting a plane lens.

As hereinabove stated, the perfect adjustment of two or more components forming a separated lens system may be very essential as a very small degree of tilting of one comonent with respect to the other can be do tected by the effect on the optical image.

For example, let us assume by reference to Figure 1, that the lens system under consideration comprises the separated components or lenses A and B. When these lenses are properly mounted in an instrument the optical axes thereof must be coincident with each other and should either of these lenses be tilted at an angle with respect to the other, even to a minute degree,"this tilting can be detected through the aberrations which will be produced on the optical image.

. When the lenses A and B are properly mounted they should assume the relative positions with respect to each other as indicated by the full lines, Figure 1,'but as soon as one becomes tilted relative to the-other, such as denoted by dotted lines'B' it ma terislly affects the eflicient performance of the instrument,and it is, therefore, essential that thetilted lens be adjusted until its optical center is again coincident with the optical center of the other lens or lenses.

The present invention has for its the accomplishing of this adjustment, and this is achieved in the present instance by mounting either one or all of the lenses constituting the system in separate lens cells 10,

which cells are subsequentl mounted in the testing instrument (not s own). For the purpose of illustration, however, and as an one cell 10 on which is mounted the lens The celi'lO includes a body portion 11 being formed with an extended annular shoulder 12 said lens being retained within the cell through the use of a small amount of cementitious material I ciated that there has been and means for mounting and adjusting lenses 18 placed between the periphery thereof and the pur ose of illustration, and the right is the shoulder 12. reserve to make any such modifications as arranged within the cell and positinned between the lens and the body portion 11 is a ring 14, the inner edge of which contacts with the lens as at 15, but is of a slightly smaller diameter than the same. Passing through the shoulder of the cell are a plurality of adjusting screws 16 which contact with the periphery of the ring. These screws may be positioned at any desired pbints around the circumference of the cell and, of course, any number may be employed. In the mounting of the lens, the ring 14,

itogether with the lens B, are first positioned 'within the cell 10, as stated above, the lens resting against the ring at the point and 7 secured within the cell by the use of a small amount of the cementitious material 13. While the cement, or the like, is still warm, the cell is mounted within the instrument (not shown), which instrument, let us assume already contains a lens A. Should it then be found that the optigal axes of the lenses A and B are not coincident with each other, but instead that the lens B is slightly tilted at an angle to the lens A, which, as.

brought out above, can be readily detected by the effect on the optical image, the ring is moved sidewise upon operation of the adjusting screws 16, and as the lens rests upon the inner edge of the ring the sliding thereof will effect a slight tilting or movement of the lens, this principle being clearly illustrated by the full and dotted lines in Figure 4. After the lenses A and B have een properly adjusted with respect to one another the cementitious material is permitted to harden, whereby the lens will be securely held against displacement in the cell. The above principle remains the same whether I the lens surface is concave or convex.

When the concave surface of the lens is placed in contact with the ring the surface of said lens engages the outer edge of the ring,

as at 15' instead of the inner case with the convex surface.

In case 'it is desired to use a plano concave or plane convex lens G and O as shown in figure 5, the wall 17 of the cell against which the ring 14 restsmay be concave as illus trated and the plane surface of the lens placed in contactwith said r The ad'ustment of the lens will then be e ected by t e movement of the ring on the concave surface. From the above it will be readily ap reprovided a me 0d edge as is the i in separated lens systems and wherein the perfect ad ustment of the lenses can be always achieved in an efiicient manner with the ex- Keaditure of a minimum amount of time and It also to be understood that the details herein shown have been disclosed merely for medium between the are found desirable without departing from or exceeding the spirit of the invention so long as such modifications fall within the scoae of the appended claims.

hat is claimed is:

l. A separate cell combined lens and mounting therefor comprising an annular cell having a transverse seat and a longitudinal axial opening through the seat, an annular lens seat smaller in diameter than the cell annulus and having a longitudinal axial opening therethrough and seated on the transverse cell seat, the face surfaces of said annulus being substantially parallel to each other and normal to the longitudinal axial line of the cell, a lens in the cell having a smaller diameter than the cell and having a convex surface resting on the outer edges of the opening in the lens seat, adjustable screw means through the walls of the cell engaging the edge of the lens seat and a time hardening cementitious medium between the edlges of the lens and the inner walls of the co v 2. separate cell combined lens and mounting therefor comprising an annular cell having a transverse seat and a longitudinal axial opening through the seat, an annular lens seat smaller in diameter than the cell annulus and having a longitudinal axial opening therethrough and seated on the transverse cell seat, the face surfaces of said annulus being substantially parallel to each other and normal to the longitudinal axial line of the cell, a lens in the cell having a smaller diameter than 'the cell and having a surface resting on the lens seat, and adustable means associated with the cell and engaging the lens seat adapted to position the same in the cell.

3. A separate cell combined lens and mounting therefor comprising an annular cell hav g a transverse seat and a longituother and normal to the longitudinal axial line of the cell, a lens in the cell having a smaller diameter than the cell and having a surface resting on the lens seat, adjustable means associated with the cell and e 'ng the lens seat adapted to position the same in the cell, and a time hardening cementitious edfies o the lens and the inner walls of the oe 4. A separate cell combined lens and mounting therefor comprising an annular cell having a transverse seat, a longitudinalaxial openin throu h the seat and outer walls paralle with e longitudinal axial line of anthethe cell, an annularlens seat smaller in diameter than the cell annulus and having a longitudinal axial opening therethrough and seated on the transverse cell seat the face surfaces of said annulus being substantially arallel to each other and normal to the ongitudinal axial line of the cell, a lens in the cell having a smaller diameter than the cell and having a convex surface resting on the outer ed es of the opening in the lens seat, adjusta le screw means through the Walls of the cell engaging the edge of the lens seat and a time hardenin cementitious medium between the edges 0 the lens and the inner walls of the cell.

5. A separate cell combined lens and mounting therefor comprising an annular cell having a transverse seat, a longitudinal axial openin through the seat and outer walls aralle with the longitudinal axis of the ce 1, an annular lens seat smaller in diameter than the cell annulus and having a longitudinal axial opening therethrough and seated on the transverse cell seat, the face surfaces of said annulus being substantially parallel to each other and normal to the longitudinal axial line of the cell, a lens in the cell having a smaller diameter than the cell and having a surface resting on the lens seat, and adjustable means associated with the cell and engaging the lens seat adapted to position the same in the ,cell.

ANNA ESTELLE GLANOY. 

